Mercutio's latest activity
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Mercutio replied to the thread Basic, non-subscription software for Windows 11.Libraries are full of woke and thoughtcrime and if you can find a librarian under 50 who isn't at least secretly a blue-haired queer (he... -
Mercutio replied to the thread SSDs - State of the Product?.There's a giant "it depends" that's based on your expected workload. Do you need fast burst transfers or sustained IOPs? I bought 4x...
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I like having sed around. Keeps reminding me of all the stuff I used to know and keep updated in the grey matter, but no longer have to...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Merc's Useful Tools of the day.Rufus, my favorite way to make bootable installation media, is in the Windows Store now. I don't know if it's any different for being in...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.sed, have you ever actually used OS/2? It really was a great idea for its time, especially if you were looking at it versus Windows 3.1...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.Man, I don't think anything Compaq made deserved a decent reputation even into the mid-90s when 486s started to become mainstream. I...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Basic, non-subscription software for Windows 11.~$10/month to get a Fax-enabled number from these guys. This is pretty reasonable. Efax wants $25/month so screw that. Apparently most...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Basic, non-subscription software for Windows 11.Email. Faxing is just a print driver on everything made this millennium. There are services like eFax if you don't feel like using a...
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Mercutio replied to the thread CURRENT GAME THREAD.Give GoG some credit. They're the people who let you keep installation media for your purchases and install them anywhere you want...
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Mercutio replied to the thread CURRENT GAME THREAD.As of this writing, there isn't much time, but as a protest over the recent actions of Steam and itch.io to de-list certain adults-only...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.I have both an AMD Thinkpad P14s (Ryzen 7 8845) and Intel (Core Ultra 165H) for the weekend. They both came from Amazon and I bought one...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Selfhosting fun.I've tested it over OpenVPN, Wireguard, Tailscale, Hamachi and Zerotier. They all work fine, though Tailscale seems to be the fastest...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Selfhosting fun.It took me about 90 seconds to get Copyparty running and about ten minutes to get it running with what I feel is a reasonable config...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Basic, non-subscription software for Windows 11.For the next two weeks (middle of August 2025), Humble Bundle is offering CorelDraw Suite (functionally Photoshop + Illustrator for the...
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Mercutio replied to the thread Selfhosting fun.Copyparty looks all kinds of interesting to me. Especially for the media controls and ability to deduplicate content. I haven't deployed...
